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Comment

Recognize People's China

Gye of the positive decisions
of the recent Big Four For-
ign Ministers conference in Ber-

was the agreement to meet
again in Geneva on April 26,
this time with the representatives
of the People’s Republic of China,

Those who sound off loudly
and often about the glories of our
‘Western “‘way of life’ were
quick to add that People’s China
Sitting in at Geneva didn’t mean

Tecognition’’ or any “‘softening’

up” to what the McCarthyites —

“Asiatic communism.”

In this instance de facto recog’
nition means only one thing, the
Testoration of a measure of sanity
by the West ‘in international af-
fairs, .

_ A couple of weeks ago, while
in South Korea as the guest of the
fentagon’s gangster, Syngman
ee, Prime Minister St. Laurent
Stated to the press that he beliew-
ed “all nations of the free. world
will have to be realistic . . . and
tecognize the government of
hina.’ For the next few days
Rhee’s controlled press carried on

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Tom
McEwen

S the Orange turning Red? The ques-
_ tion is political rather than biological.
Aere is evidence that some people in
h places thinks it is. In this age of
SNoopocracy , screening, brain-washing,
Conscience-purging and other features of
Official vacuum-cleaning and thought con-

trol, the old concept of an Englishman’s

Ome being “his castle” is all shot to
blazes. Neither his home nor his
thoughts are inviolate — if they don’t
conform.

We note from current press reports
that some of our Board of Trade lads are
Worrying about the high cost of policing.

ly an interesting topic to worry about.

0 give added zip to their worrying
about the high cost of snooping we might
Telate (from actual experience) that when
any leader of the Labor-Progressive party
Comes to town for a few days, he (or she)
“tail.” ‘This costly appendage consists
of an average of three to six automobiles,
ach being mannned by a brace of well-
fed individuals disguised as citizens to
€ep track of all the movements of the
Sitizen being “tailed.” :

us, in‘terms of cost for the services

of a fleet of cars, each with its cargo of:
Professional snooopers, the last visit of ©

™m Buck, national leader of the Labor-
Progressive party, to Vancouver must
ave cost the taxpayer a pretty penny.
€n the dumbest free-enterprising cap-

ist must know that there is no “‘sur- —

Plus value” in that sort of enterprise,

specially when any and all information

_ @esired on the itinerary and other phases
- 9f such a visit could be had in a ten-

Minute visit to the LPP headquarters in
the Ford Building.

.

4S promptly provided with a police

the Orange turning Red?

a bitter and slanderous campaign
against St. Laurent, accusing him
of acting as “‘a stooge’ for the
Communists. That, of course, is
the stock McCarthy line, whether
in Korea or elsewhere!

In Washington, Ottawa, Lon-
don, Tokyo and other ‘“‘free’’
world centres the question of

“‘recognition’’ is being driven for: |

ward by a much greater force
than official prejudices, the iron
law of . sagging «trade indices
and rising unemployment. Anti
communist propaganda in full

spate may be a pleasing sound in
Dulles’ ears, but it doesn’t sub

stitute for urgently needed mar-

kets — or jobs for a growing

army of unemployed.

Dulles and company also have
another fear, that in recognizing
the People’s Republic of China
they must also face the neces

. sity, of admitting it to the seat on |
the Security Council of the Unit- ~

ed, Nations now usurped by
Chiang Kai-shek — a man re-
pudiated- by the Chinese people.

Since this sort of thing goes on daily
from the Atlantic to the Pacific in scores
of cities and towns, it must be obvious
that the cost of such cloak-and-dagger
snooping must be enormous.

we'll go back. to the question, is
a : On what the
legal fraternity would call “unimpeach-
able authority” (not to be confused. with
Justice Minister Garson’s non-leaking
“Jeaks”) it has come to our attention
that this snoopocracy is invading new
fields of endeavor. It is already known
of course that our civil service is being
put through the screen to measure its
“loyalty” content. If as and when some
of these civil servants (many of whom
have given Canada a lifetime of loyal
service for miserably low wages) do not
measure up to’ the new snoopocrasy
standard of weights and measures, down
comes the “disloyal” non-conformist

guillotine.

In a number of municipal councils in
British Columbia the snoop brigade is
as busy as teredos boring into timber
logs. A lot of these snooping sleuths
on this particular job are suave pleasant
personalities, with all the guile and gab
of a Fuller Brush salesman. Engaging
unsuspecting citizens with a line of stock
questions, the snoop brigade wants to
know all about the character, general
behavior and fraternal affiliations of cer-
tain municipal councillors. How is Mr.
So-and-So? Is he progressisve? What
does he think of Eisenhower . . . Dulles
_. , McCarthy . . . the United States?
Does he belong to the Orange Order? Is
he anti-U.S., pro-British or what? How
Jong has he been an Orangemani?

Stock questions, coming too often in
too many places by too many snoopers
to be relegated to the realm of “a mere
coincidence.” We could be wrong, of
course, but in no case did we hear from
any of those questions whether Mr. So-
and-So was “a Communist.” Nor that we
feel slighted in the least, but the emphas-
is on Orange affiliation raises a most
interesting point in relation to the Lib-
eral sellous of Canada to Yankee imper-
jialism. j

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But again, the laws of capitalist
through these

need of markets in Asia, and par-
ticularly with the key country
of Asia — China. Hence, as
Prime Minister St. Laurent has

“stated, we have to be “‘realistic,"’

both as to recognition and to
People’s China taking its right -

‘ful place in the UN.
rer

Recognition of and mutual re-
lations with the People’s Republic
of China hold tremendous possi-
bilities for Canada’s economy and
wellbeing, and especially here in
British | Columbia.

Such being the case, why not
become “‘realistic’’ now — with-
out further delays or gratuitous
advice to China to ‘‘be good” as
the price of recognition.

Entirely aside from its fraternal and
benevolent characteristics, thes Orange

Order has its roots in British imperial

traditions. At the moment we are not
particularly interested in William of
Orange or who “liberated” whom at the
“Battle of the Boyne Water” in the year
1690. an event which is celebrated an-

nually on July 12 with colorful parades ©

of the Orange Order.

What we are interested in, and what
a number of councillors in a number of
B.C. municipalities are also interested in
(since they have come to know that their
Orange offiliation is a subject of keen
scrutiny by the snoopocrasy), is much
more serious. It poses the question:. Is
the loyalty of the Orange Order to the
British Crown now being regarded by
the St. Laurent government and _ its
snooping legioons as being “subversive”
of the Yankee foreign policy and Yankee
“benevolence” so much lauded by our
prime minister while on his NATO-world
junket?

- In other words, is the Orange turning
—or being turned—‘“Red” in the back-
rooom thought control laboratories of
the RCMP?

It is an old game this snooping and
prying into men’s minds. Himmler’s
Gestapo developed it to the point where
a lisping child could be terrorized into

. saying words that sent its father and
mother to Hitler’s gas ovens. In the

struggle of madmen to achieve and hold
despotic power, the first victims in our
age are always the Communists. But, as
McCarthy is now demonstrating, inevit-
ably the would-be dictators reach out to
destroy all who stand in their way.

In its struggle for world domination,
in which the subordination of Canada’s
independence and resources is a vital
requirement, Yankee imperialism and its
Canadian agents will inevitably reach the
point (if they haven’t now reached it)
where every individual and organization
imbued with British sentiments will be
regarded as anti-American, and hence
“subversive,” to the U.S. atomaniacs,
their stooges and snoops in Canada. In
fact, they’ll all be regarded as “Reds.”

Forty years ago
(From the files of the B.C. Federationist,
March 27, 1914)

By an overwhelming majority, unions
of the Pacific Coast District Council of
Electrical Workers voted to reaffiliate —
with the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers (AFL), from which
they seceded in 1908. The decision af-
fected electrical workers in the prov-
ince of British Columbia and the states

of Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona
and California. ”

Fifteen years ago

(From the files of the People’s Advocate,
March 24, 1939)

Dr. Norman Bethune, Montreal surg-
eon who gained fame for his blood
transfusion “work with the Republic:
armies in Spain, was appointed director
of the new International Peace Hospital
sponsored by the International Peace
Campaign and located at Wutaishan.
Establishment of the 300-bed hospital
was decided by the International Con-
ference to Aid China held at London in
‘February. Dr. Bethune’s staff was to
consist of nine fully trained Chinese doc-
tors from Peking Union Medical College
and Shanghai Medical School and 30
trained Chinese nurses.

Ten years ago

(From the files of The People,
. “ March 25; 1944)
Vancouver School Board, acting on
the recommendation of a committee

_ headed by School Trustee Ada Crump

and Miss Annie B. Jamieson, announc-
_ed it would ask the provincial govern-
ment for a special grant for infants
schools. The schools, for children be-
tweeen the ages of four and six, were to
be opened in September.

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